Volume 39, Number 16, April 20, 2012

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The campaign of LaRouche associate Jacques Cheminade for the Presidency of France, which has focussed heavily on dumping the British financial straitjacket by restoring Glass-Steagall and a credit system oriented to great projects, has created the potential to break the political controls on the debate throughout Europe, and in the United States.

The food and agriculture policy plank in the campaign platform of Jacques Cheminade for President of France, released Jan. 31 this year—“The World Against the City and Wall Street—a Grand Platform for Tomorrow”—stands as an international policy guidance for emergency and long-term action.

International

It would be foolhardy for anyone to think that the British Empire’s threat of using these conflict points to detonate a thermonuclear confrontation between the U.S. on one side, and Russia and China on the other, has been pushed off the table, just because there’s been progress in war avoidance on Iran and Syria.

A transcript of the April 9 appeal by the German stateswoman, for Americans to return to their best tradition, for the sake of the world. “If you don’t do it, I don’t see how we can manage without you,” she concludes.

LaRouche answers questions on the sabotage of the U.S. space program, and argues in response to a question on the advisability of U.S.-Russia collaboration in space exploration, that it is an absolute necessity, along with cooperation on the Russia proposal for a Strategic Defense of Earth.

Recent signs of improvement in Indian-Pakistani relations, including a visit by Pakistani President Zardari to India, where he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are critical for world peace, but their fruition will require taking on the in-depth obstacles planted and nurtured by the British Empire.

National

Some political figures are finally beginning to realize that LaRouche was right about Obama’s Nero complex, and a new “Impeach Obama 2012” campaign, launched on the Alex Jones website, is beginning to take off.